Re: Kreyon City Sony labs at Network seminar // City Interaction lab // 12th May
Liubov
Dear all,
We are happy to invite you to the next Network Seminar on 12th May 2pm-3pm CET (unusual time!!) with Bernardo Monechi (Sony Labs, Paris, Rome).
Bernardo will present the project, which has travelled around the globe demonstrating the innovative approach for studying cities. Together with the Interaction Data lab and City Interaction lab we are especially happy to welcome you all to meet with Bernardo.
The seminar will be online. Please use this registration Link to get a ZOOM link.
More information on the event page: https://events.cri-paris.org/e/141
Title of the talk: Kreyon City
Abstract: The adverse effects of unsustainable behaviours on human society are leading to an increasingly urgent and critical need to change policies and practices worldwide. This requires that citizens become informed and engaged in participatory governance and measures leading to sustainable futures. Citizens’ understanding of the inherent complexity of sustainable systems is a necessary (though generally not sufficient) ingredient for them to understand controversial public policies and maintain the core principles of democratic societies. In this work, we present a novel, open-ended experiment where individuals had the opportunity to solve model urban sustainability problems in a purposeful game. Participants were challenged to interact with familiar LEGO blocks representing elements in a complex generative urban economic indicators model. Players seek to find a specific urban configuration satisfying particular sustainability requirements. We show that, despite the intrinsic complexity and non-linearity of the problems, participants’ ability to make counter-intuitive actions helps them find suitable solutions. Moreover, we show that through successive iterations of the experiment, participants can overcome the difficulties linked to non-linearity and increase the probability of finding the correct solution to the problem. We contend that this kind of what-if platforms could have a crucial role in future approaches to sustainable development goals.
Bio: Bernardo Monechi is a Researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories. He works in the Sustainable Cities unit, focused on understanding Urban Dynamics using Machine Learning, Statistical Physics, and Data-driven approaches. He is also involved in art-science interaction projects by bringing scientific content into museums or taking part in the artistic process with scientific tools.
More information on the network seminar: https://interactiondatalab.com/network-seminar/
On behalf of organisers,
Chakresh, Liuba, Marc